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How did medieval structures get financed?

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How did medieval structures get financed?
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Medieval cathedrals and other structures are indeed impressive works of construction, and to look at them is to marvel at human ingenuity.  Medieval societies were in fact technological quite progressive, a fact documented for example in Joel Mokyr’s history of technology, The Lever of Riches (Oxford 1992).  Technologies for cutting stone, lifting heavy objects and advances in the design of buildings were all developed in ways that enabled these structures to be built.